Top 400 Patricia Briggs Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “Trust you to bring a gun to a fistfight.”

— Patricia Briggs

252. “Someday, I’m going to meet some supernatural creature who tells me everything I should know up front and in a forthright manner – but I’m not going to hold my breath.”

— Patricia Briggs

253. “Charles looked at her thoughtfully. “People talk to you,” he said. “That could be useful.”

— Patricia Briggs

254. “He did not enjoy the sorrow, but he would not have missed the years that he and Joseph were friends, either. Such joy was worth a little sorrow.”

— Patricia Briggs

255. “It is the way of mortals. They fling themselves at life and emerge broken.”

— Patricia Briggs

256. “Coyote had told me once that changes were neither good nor bad – but brought with them some of both.”

— Patricia Briggs

257. “When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.”

— Patricia Briggs

258. “So what do we do next, Haunt Huntress?” “That’s a pretty lame superhero name,” I told him. “Scooby-Doo is already taken,” he said with dignity. “Anything else sounds lame in comparison.”

— Patricia Briggs

259. “Beauclaire, for his part, sank back in the soft material of the couch as if the thought that it would impede him should he have to move quickly never occurred to him. I’m not afraid of anyone here, his body posture said. Charles’s – relaxed, arms folded loosely, chin slightly tilted – said, You’re boring me; either fight and die – or back off.”

— Patricia Briggs

260. “Did you find out if they found out anything about them?” I asked. Kyle gave me a look, then busied himself making me a peanut butter and huckleberry jelly sandwich. “What really bothers me is that I understood that question. You will eat this and go to sleep, so your pronouns get their antecedents back.”

— Patricia Briggs

261. “I’ve never heard you swear before,” said Jesse, sounding a little better. “At least not like that.” “Power words. Without which mechanics the world over would be lost.”

— Patricia Briggs

262. “There are some things that honest, honorable people don’t do to the people they love. They don’t propose marriage on TV. They don’t bring home small cuddly animals without checking with their spouses first. And they don’t tell their ex-husband they love him in front of a crowd that includes their daughter and his current wife right before he goes off to almost certain death. It didn’t help that most of us could tell that she wasn’t lying.”

— Patricia Briggs

263. “When you turn something into stone, you take out the moisture that makes most of the bulk of flesh. A really good mage could turn you into a pebble,” said the really good mage before me.”

— Patricia Briggs

264. “Only an evil man needs to fear a good man.”

— Patricia Briggs

265. “But you can’t marry someone to fix him, even if you love them. And I didn’t love Samuel the way a woman should love her mate, the way I loved Adam. Samuel didn’t love me that way either. Close, but not quite. And except in horseshoes and hand grenades, close doesn’t count.”

— Patricia Briggs

266. “And it was easier to have an unrequited love than to get all fussed and dressed and go out on dates every Saturday with men she was never going to fall in love with. So she’d quit dating, quit dressing up – and on the whole she was happier than she’d been before.”

— Patricia Briggs

267. “I hope this means you’ll quit asking me to kill you. It gives me indigestion.”

— Patricia Briggs

268. “Once he started lying to me, it would be harder to get him to trust me with the truth.”

— Patricia Briggs

269. “I was talking cannibalism, not romance.”

— Patricia Briggs

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270. “I blew out a breath, took a couple steps back, and flopped in one of the battered chairs that line the wall, trying, with my casual pose, to defuse the situation. “Adam, I don’t have a sense to be afraid of Sam in the state he’s in now. I don’t know why you think I’d be smart enough to be afraid of you.”

— Patricia Briggs

271. “Why was it that the people who made idiots of themselves immediately felt it necessary to compound their sins by flipping off the people who saved them from possibly fatal mistakes?”

— Patricia Briggs

272. “Why is it that in all the adventure movies the heroine doesn’t have to get up and go to work?”

— Patricia Briggs

273. “Want to explain to the kid that I’m more a Spike than a Buffy? A villain, not a superhero?”

— Patricia Briggs

274. “You scratch whatever itches you choose,” Charles told her, his voice cold and quiet.“Enjoy yourself. But at the end of the day, you remember that Isaac belongs to my father – and to me. He is necessary to us as you are not. You will leave him unharmed or I will hunt you down and destroy you.”

— Patricia Briggs

275. “Wolf Versus Street Sign, Street Sign Wins.”

— Patricia Briggs

276. “If I ever become a serial murderer, I’ll be very careful to kill people in a pattern that centres around a police station – and not my home or work.”

— Patricia Briggs

277. “I was in the middle of a dream about garbage cans and frogs – don’t ask, and I won’t tell.”

— Patricia Briggs

278. “I’d be damned if I was going to be the victim of a loser – or anyone else.”

— Patricia Briggs

279. “Mercy: “Can’t sleep with a dead man in my closet.” Ben: “You killed someone?” Ben asked with interest.”

— Patricia Briggs

280. “Never starve a werewolf, or he might ask you to join him for lunch.”

— Patricia Briggs

281. “I like what you’ve done to your face,” Ben said, tapping his eye.”

— Patricia Briggs

282. “One, one, two, zero,” I told him through the chattering of my teeth. “It’s my birthday.”

— Patricia Briggs

283. “When I put magic into a book – whether it’s a wizard or a crusty old werewolf – I’m asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.”

— Patricia Briggs

284. “Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.”

— Patricia Briggs

285. “Silence fell, and I remembered that I was supposed to be running this. It reminded me in an odd way of the time I’d had to take over my sister’s Girl Scout troop when my mother had been sick. Fourteen preteen girls, a tableful of werewolves – there were certain monstrous similarities.”

— Patricia Briggs

286. “After I shut the door behind me, I heard Darryl say “of course eating him would work too.”

— Patricia Briggs

287. “We’re the good guys. That we’re scary doesn’t mean we’re the villains.”

— Patricia Briggs

288. “People who say that vampires don’t care about anyone except themselves are mostly right – but sometimes they are very and lethally wrong.”

— Patricia Briggs

289. “Zee? Are you all right?” The whole car rose about ten inches off the jacks, knocking them over on their sides, and shook like an epileptic. A wave of magic rose from the Buick, and I backed away, one hand locked in Gabriel’s shirt so he came with me as the car returned all the way to the ground with a bang of tires on pavement and the squeak of protesting shocks. “I feel better now,” said Zee in a very nasty tone. “I would be even happier if I could hang the last mechanic who worked on it.”

— Patricia Briggs

290. “When he grew up, he wanted to be like Charles.”

— Patricia Briggs

291. “There’s something really disturbing about finding out how little you really know about something you felt like you were an expert on.”

— Patricia Briggs

292. “We’ve determined that Ms. Hauptman is a potential threat to the public safety, and we are bringing her in as a murder suspect who has supernatural powers that make her too dangerous to be incarcerated in the usual ways.”

— Patricia Briggs

293. “Taking out werewolves, I gather and surmise, is akin to taking out a SEAL team.”

— Patricia Briggs

294. “For her he shook like an alcoholic in need of his gin, because he felt she needed to know her options, no matter how his wolf felt about losing his mate. Her knight, indeed.”

— Patricia Briggs

295. “Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.”

— Patricia Briggs

296. “It comes with being a teenager – you inspire violence in the hearts of those who love you. It mostly goes away when you hit twenty.”

— Patricia Briggs

297. “The Elders were closer to the Maker of All Things and should be deferred to whenever they made their will known.”

— Patricia Briggs

298. “I see your fear, they told her, but no harm will come to you by me.”

— Patricia Briggs

299. “She’d never have allowed herself to be held by anything as mundane as a few bars and a reinforced door.”

— Patricia Briggs

300. “Three women bonding over household chores – my mother would be pleased if she could see us. That thought hardened my resolve that next week, some of the men would do cleanup. It would be good for them to expand their skill set.”

— Patricia Briggs